Back Issue
Volume 86, Number 1: January 7, 2008
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Table of Contents
- News of the Week
- Business
- Government & Policy
- Science & Technology
- Awards
- The Departments
Cover Story
The Centrality of Chemistry: Our Challenges and Opportunities
Let's celebrate and communicate the centrality of chemistry and advocate for science education.
Cover: Peter Cutts Photography
News of the Week
Moving Gas Safely
Complexation with low-pressure medium reduces hazards of high-pressure storage, transport.
Schulman Rejects Investor Proposal
Plastics compounder urges shareholders to support its director slate.
Novel Embrace Of Protein And Metal
Unique interaction may give copper an easy out.
Policy Changes In Budget Bill
Omnibus spending package contains many nonbudget provisions.
Ecopetrol Buys Propilco
Colombian oil company pushes downstream into chemicals.
New World For Biofuels
Ethanol production standards will transform biofuels business, advocates predict.
At-Will Wettability
Electricity converts surface from repellent to wettable.
Awards
2008 ACS National Award Winners
Recipients are honored for contributions of major significance to chemistry.
National Fresenius Award
Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical & Experimental Chemistry of Liquids
James Flack Norris Award In Physical Organic Chemistry
Frank H. Field & Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry
Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science & Technology
James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public
Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics
ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry
ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
ACS Award In Industrial Chemistry
ACS Award in Colloid & Surface Chemistry
» Business
January 7, 2008
Cool Comfort
The race to find a replacement auto refrigerant heats up in Europe as a ban on HFC-134a looms.
Free Trade Or Fair Trade
The chemical industry would benefit from international standards of environmental and safety compliance.
Business Concentrates
- Newcomers Acquire Drug Production Plants
- Akzo and Basell Complete Big Buys ...
- ... As Other Deals Are Wrapped Up
- DuPont Picks Site For Kevlar Plant
- Four Die In Mitsubishi Fire
- Eastman Advances Exit From Polyester ...
- ... As Spanish Business Changes Hands
- Oxea to Boost Output of Neopentyl Glycol
- PPG Buys a Business, Can't Sell Another
- Merck Signs Second Deal With Addex
- Cubist Acquires Illumigen Biosciences
- Kalexsyn Opens New Medchem Labs
- Business Roundup
» Government & Policy
January 7, 2008
Fighting Fakes
U.S., trading partners boost efforts against intellectual property theft.
Cleanup Overhaul
Independent oversight panel urges a big jump in DOE nuclear weapons waste cleanup staff.
Government & Policy Concentrates
» more government & policy news...
» Science & Technology
January 7, 2008
Making Explosives In The Lab
Researchers impress on students the importance of safety.
Enzyme Opens For Business
Transglutaminase 2 structure may pave new route to developing treatments for celiac disease.
What's That Stuff? Excipients
Inactive ingredients in medicines serve multiple functions in drug delivery.
